Organist Thomas Ospital offers a concentrated programme celebrating the recently restored Metzler organ, presented within the inauguration festival. The recital explores a wide palette of timbres and registrations, balancing historical repertoire and contemporary works. Through subtle registration and virtuosic passages, the performance alternates intimate introspection with majestic climaxes, revealing the instrument’s tonal richness. Program available as a PDF for reference.
Directed by Claude Vuillemin, Yasmina Reza’s Trois versions de la vie assembles four performers, Laurent Deshusses, Marie Druc, Sophie Lukasik and Nicolas Rossier, in a taut, virtuosic staging. Lighting by Rinaldo Del Boca and costumes by Sylvie Lépine shape shifting domestic realities as the play probes how social veneer fractures intimate relationships. This production by Les Amis – Le Chariot demands precision and emotional nuance from its cast.
In French.
Close the season with your family by experiencing an enchanting musical tale that combines psychedelic folk, swinging rhythms, and absurd poetry. Led by the duo Cyril Cyril and joined by two additional musicians, this show offers an imaginative road trip filled with tender humor and captivating melodies, blurring the lines between dream, music, and storytelling for a playful and uninhibited experience.
Directed by François Marin, this intimate staging examines the fraught passion between Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt against the moral upheavals of Nazi Germany. Mario Diament’s text, adapted by André Nerman, traces a forbidden love between a philosopher and his student, probing complicity, memory and the struggle to reconcile heart and conscience. Sabrina Martin and Frank Semelet inhabit the roles with spare, intense performances, supported by a precise, austere mise en scène that foregrounds emotional conflict and ethical ambiguity.
In French.
Led by the Geneva Chamber Orchestra, this series presents short, informal chamber programmes featuring flautist Eliane Williner and clarinettist Cindy Lin. The programme favors light, lyrical repertoire and intimate dialogues between instruments, inviting quiet attention and communal listening. Arrangements and subtle dynamics carve a gentle arc from reflective solos to warm ensemble passages; delicate timbres mingle with ambient outdoor air to create a restorative, conversational atmosphere. Presented in collaboration with a local botanical partner, the experience emphasizes presence and simple musical pleasure.
Created collectively by the company À l’Ouest with Guillaume Pidancet, this inventive staging reimagines Charles Perrault’s Bluebeard for families. Performed in a mobile truck‑theatre that becomes a ‘suitcase of dreams,’ the production blends playful storytelling, poetic imagery and close‑up interaction to transform a dark tale into a gentle exploration of curiosity and trust. The intimate ensemble features Pierre Boulben, Hugo Braillard and Loubna Raigneau.
In French.
Choreographer Cindy Van Acker brings Iannis Xenakis’s Pléïades to the stage, assembling five dancers, six percussionists from the Eklekto collective and a large percussion arsenal. Van Acker shapes a moving percussion landscape where bodies confront the score’s power and complexity, constantly shifting posture and relation to sound. Music is played live; scenography and lighting by Victor Roy frame waves, galaxies and whirlwinds in a rigorous, visceral performance. Creation 2026; coproduction.
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